PLEA FOR BETTER MUSIC
Sir,-I often find it quite difficult to get any music that appeals to me, though I go from station to station. I like good music, but not always classical. More piano or violin solos, not so much orchestral music which is very good in moderation, but when you find six orchestral items on one station, and as’ many on another, and mostly jazz or crooning or very sentimental songs on the rest of the programme, you turn away in despair. I do not wish to curtail other people’s pleasure, but I should like on one station ‘or ‘another to be able to get something beautiful and soothing, satisfying, such’ as the sitmpler music of Chopin, Mozart, Haydn, Schubert, Schymann and many more. I do think that one of the objects in hearing music should be to' educate us by giving us somethjng to raise our thoughts and minds. I am not alone in my wish for something more appealing in the music we hear over the air; Numbers of people have expressed their sympathy with me and we shall
now be more
HOPEFUL
(Eastbourne).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 428, 5 September 1947, Page 5
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188PLEA FOR BETTER MUSIC New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 428, 5 September 1947, Page 5
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